Ch. 1 – Introduction: Disability in the Making of the Modern Middle East, by Sara Scalenghe, Loyola University Maryland, USA, and Beverly Tsacoyianis, The University of Memphis, USA
Ch. 2 – Blindness, Poverty, and Social Control in Late Ottoman Istanbul (1845-1914), by Irem Yildiz, The University of Oxford, UK
Ch. 3 – Modern Prosthetics in Late Ottoman Society, by Elif Küskü, Istanbul Technical University, Türkiye
Ch. 4 – Reading Resistance and Agency Through 19th Century Citizen Petitions” by Yasmin Shafei, American University in Beirut, Lebanon
Ch. 5 – Who Belongs in a Jewish Homeland: Disability, Gender, and Zionism in the Yishuv (1880-1947), by Sarah Imhoff, Indiana University Bloomington, USA
Ch. 6 – Disability and Employment in Colonized Algeria, 1900s-1940s, by Gildas Brégain, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
Ch. 7 – Contesting the Politics of British Prosthetic Care: Pain, Nativeness, and the Plight of Palestinian Jewish Amputees in WWII, by Marco di Giulio, Franklin & Marshall College, USA
Ch. 8 – Between History and Memory: 21st – Century Literary Portrayals of Disability in 1940s and 1950s Palestine and Israel, by Beverly Tsacoyianis, University of Memphis, USA
Ch. 9 – Disabling Effects of Anger in Iran (1941-1951), by Saghar Bozorgi, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Ch. 10 – Portraying Disability in Refugeedom: Palestinian Refugees with Disabilities through UNRWA Photographs and Videos, 1950s-1980s, by Maria Chiara Rioli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Ch. 11 – Piecing Together the Life of an Iranian Woman Political Prisoner: Defetishizing the Production of Madness and Disability through State Violence, by Sona Kazemi, University of Wisconsin – La Cross, USA, and Efrat Gold, University at Buffalo, USA